Security update for grub2
SUSE Security Update: Security update for grub2
Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2015:2386-1 |
Rating: | important |
References: | #884828 #884830 #946148 #952539 #954592 #956631 |
Affected Products: |
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 5 fixes is now available.
Description:
This update for grub2 provides the following fixes:
A security issues with a bufferoverflow when reading username and password
was fixed (bsc#956631, CVE-2015-8370)
Bugs fixed:
- Expand list of grub.cfg search path in PV Xen guests for systems
installed on btrfs snapshots. (bsc#946148, bsc#952539)
- Add grub.xen config searching path on boot partition. (bsc#884828)
- Add linux16 and initrd16 to grub.xen. (bsc#884830)
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-grub2-12287=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-grub2-12287=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3:
zypper in -t patch sledsp3-grub2-12287=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:
zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-grub2-12287=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 (x86_64):
- grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.49.2
- grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.49.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 (x86_64):
- grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.49.2
- grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.49.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 (x86_64):
- grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.49.2
- grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.49.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 (x86_64):
- grub2-debuginfo-2.00-0.49.2
- grub2-debugsource-2.00-0.49.2